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In this campaign, we invite your ideas on how to measure the health of your editing community.

Healthy projects promote high quality content creation, respectful collaboration, efficient workflows, and effective conflict resolution. Patterns of experiences that result in editor frustration, poor editor retention, broken workflows, and unresolved conflicts can be seen as unhealthy.

As a movement, Wikimedians have always measured aspects of their communities. Data points such as editor activity levels, new users, and editor retention are regularly collected. While these metrics provide some useful indications about the health of a project, they do not give major insights into challenges and specific areas needing improvement.

We need to collect data that evaluate projects holistically, like overall editing stats, but we also need to measure the smaller, specific circumstances and processes that editors encounter in their work.

If you have ideas on how to measure community health, please share them during the current campaign!

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Naposledy aktualizováno: 22 October 2018
Create a template named “TP_Health” or similar. When placed at the top of a talk page it allows users to rate the health of a page according to non specific criteria....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 22 October 2018
Toxic users seem to be a source of demotivation for conflict-averse users which then discontinue editing. By having a measure, administrators and arbcoms could target these users specifically with a set of behavioral rules containing possible sanctions....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 05 October 2018
A community has an influx of new editors, and also an influx of admins. The first normalized against the later should be above a given threshold, otherwise something strange is going on....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 04 October 2018
In a survey the adressed inactive and formerly active users could state their personal reason for their inactivity. This only adresses retention of users, not the acquisition. The answers should be categorised in non-wikipedia-related and wikipedia-related. Further categorisation could be conflict, loss of interest, personal agenda achieved......

Naposledy aktualizováno: 01 October 2018
Rather than one editor being responsible for every aspect of an article, they may (if they so choose) instead focus on the one thing they are good at. When each editor chooses their lane, they become more efficient at it, and it encourages collaboration....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 28 September 2018
In many projects of the Wikiverse, there are single or very small groups of users which are the only ones to possess a required knowledge or skill. This is most obvious for skills such as operation of a bot, fixing and creating templates or adjusting editing filters. Non-technical skills are e.g. the creation of maps or diagrams. This is problematic for at least two distinct reasons: On the one hand, it places pressure on these users to continue providing their knowledge or skill to their community which can quickly become a burden. On the other hand, when these users are absent temporarily or leave permanently, vital parts or workflows of the project cease to function. This is again most obvious when e.g. a vital bot stops working, but is true for all other knowledge and skill bottlenecks....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 27 September 2018
This idea is about getting crossed information about contributors about their centers of interest via the pages they wrote or contributed to, then propose a group of potential users ("group") sharing the same interest they could join or be notified about ("social media functionnality") (same pages written and contributed) to make they talk, exchange and work on some collaborative project: i.e: "you are interested in old cars articles ? let us create, document, or translate a page about old cars pages together"...

Naposledy aktualizováno: 27 September 2018
Use ORES (Wikimedia's machine learning web service) to regularly score the quality of an article to measure the improvement of the article over time. This article quality improvement rate would be useful for editing communities around single articles, but could also form the basis for a combined improvement score for WikiProjects and task forces....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 15 September 2018
There should be a specific system in place to guide users through the unblocking process. The closest thing to this is the standard offer, but it is far from perfect. Instead of vague blocks with an "indefinite" expiration, there should be specific protocols in place to determine whether a user should be unblocked, and the user should be made knowledgeable of how those protocols work so that they can best understand how to facilitate their reinstatement....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 15 September 2018
There are lack of contributors in my country. I want to run a survey in order to understand the issue and to propose good solution(s) that bring more contributors from my country in the project....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 08 September 2018
Provide a way for editors involved in a decision-making process (AfD, RfC, Admin Noticeboard) to report how satisfied they were with the outcome of the process....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 06 September 2018
In the Spanish Wikipedia exists a description of a number of symptoms, commonly known as "Wikipedia disease", a set of behaviors linked to particularly lengthy sessions of Wikipedia editing. You and I have found ourselves at 3 AM editing and finding an appropriate source, finishing a hard work session behind a category, maybe trying to have the last argument on a discussion... What is the maximum healthy amount of work that an average person can perform, according to scientific evidence? How many edits were made by a burned-out person, with warped perceptions of reality due to fatigue, loneliness, isolation, or the simple need for Wikipedia to be the only thing in the world? What happens if, with the help of experts, we can design an add-on that can remind Wikipedians about basic necessities like resting, going around, looking at something other than the screen, drinking water, sleeping, or getting out to real world? This could be based on the calculation of bytes added, on the session length, on the days and hours that the person has been sitting down editing? A series of messages could make a difference....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 05 September 2018
When an editor is blocked or banned, every effort should be made to 'rescue' them and allow them to contribute. We could call it the editor rescue squad or something similar. We abandon many editors once they have experienced a block or ban and assume that they are not open to change and improvement. On the English Wikipedia, we should have a safe, non judgmental space where experienced and kind-hearted editors will help those blocked or banned to recover from their blocks or bans and help them develop the editing skills they will need to move on and become productive once again. Since this would be a safe space, I do not think that it should be viewable by anyone who has been involved in the block or ban for the editors....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 20 August 2018
we need a new type of article to provide an overview for a particular issue area for a particular time period, i.e. enivornmental overview for 2018, economic overview, etc etc...

Naposledy aktualizováno: 17 August 2018
For the abuse filter, a parameter is needed to set-up a user separation filter, where 2 conflicting users or user groups cannot edit a page for a certain time period after the other has edited a page. See phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125723 Ticket 125723...

Naposledy aktualizováno: 12 August 2018
The overall health of the Wikipedia community is a reflection of the health of the individual members, so it should start with a meaningful metric of the people who contribute to Wikipedia....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 11 August 2018
I believe the Wikimedia project as a whole needs to be improved. It seems as if it hasn't been updated since 2009. It's bland, linear, and hard to digest in it's current state. However, social education is on the rise and Wiki needs to be it's backbone; With an project-wide open-source update, we can do it....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 10 August 2018
Wikipedia's page is completely white, it contains blue light also, its injurious for our eyes so I think to improve page style which is more comfortable for our eyes. Add Reader mode....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 10 August 2018
Wikipedia should study the fact that nearly EVERY edit done by IP is reverted. Those who have accounts (especially for a long time) wrongly believe that they own wikipedia - and they push out every other contributor, because they simply delete every edit. They often give ridiculous excuses to delete things (for examples: if they dont like the source, they delete the edit). If they are so interested in sources for stubs, maybe they should go and delete poorly sourced articles? Another problem is that if one even manages to edit an article, then you have to "guard" it forever, because your changes will be reverted in a week or two by people whose activity is just deleting stuff. Many of them even BOAST about how many items they deleted from the site: changes (often thousands) or articles (hundreds). This means that hundreds of people who tried to contribute were burned - and their contributions, discarded. This is very discouraging to try to do anything in this "community" - which in fact seems to be more of a clique of old timers, who seem to try to everything possible, to push away new people. After all, the old timers are "proven", while in reality they did hundreds of reverts, or small changes - and most of true wikipedia was written by IPs....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 10 August 2018
We are build the Local wiki Guide Community for Promote at Local address . we are supporter online from our state and Our Country. we can build a community for sharing knowledge with all juniors ....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 10 August 2018
It would be great to be able to track what proportion of the articles in a wiki haven't had a single edit in the last year (or last 6 months, or 2 years, etc). The health of a community should be measured not only by its content creation, but also the capacity of the wiki to maintain existing articles....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 09 August 2018
Having a system to facilitate talk page moderation that can 1) list discussions that are highly likely toxic, encouraging volunteers to take actions to discourage toxic behavior to limit further damage; 2) allow easier investigations for administrators into the reported cases of personal attacks, by providing text search functionality for a given author....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 09 August 2018
Identify specific historical pages that contain information relevant to today's political discourse and ensure their verity and eliminate single author bias in favor of historical fact...

Naposledy aktualizováno: 09 August 2018
The mistakes that administrators make, and in particular the occurrances where they bend the rules out of rage against a specific user they don't like, must be counted, in order to counteract an arbitrary tyrannic rule over Wikipedia....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 09 August 2018
I recently created an article (Consolidated Third) and struggled getting all the references and categories properly hooked up. I started on Wikipedia in 2003 back when this was all much simpler. The process needs to be simplified greatly as it's a barrier to newer users and users who do not edit often....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 09 August 2018
The quality of editing by some editors is abysmal. There are some pretty basic skills that are lacking by some users and vetting should weed out any recruits who end up wasting the time of the rest of the community....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 09 August 2018
The decade-long decline of authors in German Wikipedia is a clear signal of unhealthy conditions in this community project. An analysis of the editing behavior of new Wikipedians should help to show ways to overcome this bad situation....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 08 August 2018
Create just a good and complete video tutorial about how to edit and translate wikipedia articles describing and explaining the basic technical procedures. This tutorial could be find in youtube and would be done by quality staff from wikipedia....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 08 August 2018
Create a classification for abandoned articles (or not completed or without references) and new ones (links not yet created) based on their importance (number of researches of the item in the Web, for example in Google search, or other parameters). It would be fantastic creating a competition with prices (t-shirts or pens, cheap stuff), where the most active member awards a price. It is also possibile to organize open days in some cities, where experts and active members explain some topics to people, like TedEd, but from a more professional point of view....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 08 August 2018
Various communities of the Wikimedia projects created technically limited "box-like" Templates to mimic with more or less success appearance and mechanics of widgets (GUI). They are used on various pages like portals, wikiprojects, talk pages, main page of the wiki, etc....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 08 August 2018
When people join wikipedia, all they wanted is to share information. Most of the time Wikipedia accept it but sometimes, it requires a lot of parameters and time to get the information passed to others. It's very hard for a beginner to understand what sort of content is allowed. Better place of communication would be very helpful for those who are not aware about the standards and parameters....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 08 August 2018
each article first presents thesis as general view-point, then alt-thesis which presents differing/alternate view-points , then maestros of that particular subject can present synthesis, especially maestros of spiritual topics, languages...

Naposledy aktualizováno: 07 August 2018
Many articles in pt are deleted without any logical criteria even if this article have being writen in other languages (Orange Pi for example). Professional bodies articles in Brasil are beeing deleted by the obscure none sense logical of the wikipedia revisor. Some articles are deleted others not deleted, no one could ever know why because the contente are the same. I propose that junk article could be marked as junk, fake, incomplete but could no longer being hidden from wikipedia. So, any one could start from that scrach to improved the quality of information provided....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 07 August 2018
Administrators should list on their user page a their expertise (e.g. what branch of history or computing science) and b if they have ever benefited from a Wikipedia grant....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 07 August 2018
A proper contribution scaling does indeed promotes the editors and also a badges can be given to the experts of different sectors like sports, biography in their regional or national or global category....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 07 August 2018
Stop allowing "established editors" to incorporate PEJORATIVES into the personal bios of individuals with "protected" pages; it doesn't belong on Wikipedia and it discredits you entirely. If you're going to lock editors out of making page edits, AT LEAST provide a reporting method that can be used repeatedly until the attention of a reasonable, adult, critically-thinking editor can be acquired. If you're going to let people tag political figures they dislike with pejorative remarks, at least leave the page open to ALL editors. Otherwise, YOU ARE FAKE NEWS and this daily reader will stop using (or promoting) your service. In the past, I have repeatedly, aggressively defended Wikipedia as a reasonable source, due to enforcement of critical thinking standards and the ability to quickly correct erroneous content. Now, you're making me regret that defense. Your job is NOT to enforce critical thinking among political pundits! Your job is to enforce critical thinking standards in _your own_ content. You're no longer accomplishing that task, based on my recent observation....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 07 August 2018
The basic idea of this proposal is to conduct a survey of people who recently started editing Wikipedia, and to ask them whether they felt that an experienced editor acted too rude or hostile to them as a result of the new editor's edits. Ideally, such a survey would include both IPs and logged-in users, as well as both currently active and non-active users. But it wouldn't include vandals, of course, as they deserve to be treated with hostility. The main point of this proposal is to see whether newcomers are actually being bitten (in violation of en:WP:BITE) on a regular basis, thereby discouraging prospective good-faith contributors from sticking around....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 06 August 2018
Currently there is no real way to say "this article really helped me", or indeed provide feedback on the helpfulness of content other than through complex mechanisms which most users have no time for. As a consequence, other than page hits, there is no way to identify authors or groups of authors producing meaningful content. This could be solved through end user account linked editable per page/page topic ranking of content usefulness....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 06 August 2018
Each users may use wikipedia at any point of time based on a particular need, for example to understand terminologies in Artificial Intelligence. Allowing users to group these requests a create a list of " Wikipedia bookmarks" grouped by tags selected by the user and allowing other users to follow these tags created by like minded users allow users to created a "repository" of all known terms in a particular subject and also encourages participation in any article that does not explain the term in the right manner....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 06 August 2018
Articles on politics and political figures or on controversial sociopolitical issues are heavily biased liberally. This is intellectually dishonest and turns Wikipedia into nothing more than a propaganda site....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 06 August 2018
Everytime, an article is edited in one language, it might means there's an update, the editors of the article in other languages should also be notified of the update. So, that if its an important update, other language Wikipedias too get updated and all articles of the same name in different languages are in sync with each other....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 06 August 2018
Wikimedia policies say that sysops have a merely a technical role, and they just enforce consensus. But reality is much different: many procedures (like Articles for deletion) involve last word decision-making by sysops; when they think consensus is obvious, sysops are allowed to "be bold" and decide themselves; and that's not simply "applying the rules", because differents sysops come out with different decisions. Even when real discussion takes place, it is not uncommon that the case is enterely or mainly decided by sysops (that's to say, the same one who will enforce the decision). Not even in the wild west it was allowed to the same person to be, at the same time, sheriff and judge. What Wikipedia lacks is a separation of powers: those who decide should always be sharply divided from those who enforce decisions. No exception allowed....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 05 August 2018
enable some "right-click" options to rate (with stars) any part of the article and optionally leave a comment to the authors. This feedback channel can be used to identify the weak parts. the idea is to engage more "non-editors" in the process of making high quilty articles....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 04 August 2018
Stack Overflow has an impressive track record at developing gamification tools that motivate contributors with points and badges. Let's do the same on Wikipedia? This will help the Wikipedia community know itself better (who is doing what, who is good at what), create healthy cooperation incentive, etc....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 03 August 2018
We can conduct an experiment or can use forms to find out what really bothering Wikimedia users. This experiment consists of a few basic questions, questions about why they are not using Wikimedia frequently. By this, we can understand the real problems and will do measures accordingly....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 03 August 2018
You can have a certification course for aspiring Editors. Once they became editors we shall have level( beginner, intermediate and expert) tests and have icon next to their name based on their level.That will help us to Measure the health of our editing community....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 03 August 2018
Apart from regularly creating high quality content, wiki editors must constantly keep reviewing submitted articles. Faster reviews would always ensure more content creation. One metric to measure the rate of reviews is the ageing of the submitted articles and average time taken to respond after changes are done to a rejected article....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 02 August 2018
There is a need to pay special attention to the articles of health conditions that pose danger to the wellbeing of communities, ex: life threatening (medical / dental) conditions, in English and other foreign Wikis. That being said, the editing style in most health pages in English tend to target the specialized / professional readers and not the lay-readers....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 01 August 2018
Ticket system (comparable to Jira) + "peer review", aka users are rating tickets in their own field of expertise on a scale from 0 to 10 how important they are + Gamification (Achievements for certain milestones) = new number: Number of solved tickets with certain importance = Quality...

Naposledy aktualizováno: 31 July 2018
Wikipedia projects tend to be centered on a specific language, and this pose a problem for small languages. Instead of building language specific projects we should build projects that support an ethnic group with all their languages....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 31 July 2018
There is no need of reinventing the wheel. If a change has been made in an article in a language which is a major edit, then the editors of the same article in other languages must be notified, So important details/new details are added fast. This prevents discrepancy in the same article across differernt languages. For this to be achieved, articles must be linked across different languages through a common identifier....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 29 July 2018
I am a programmer, who most of the time spend in Stack Overflow and I also edit in Wikipedia in my part-time and always wanted pointsPoints for each contributiuon so that we can see the credibility of a user in Wikimedia....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 28 July 2018
I am a blocked user on a wiki. I want to be given another chance, but my request is declined. I think that there should be a page to train blocked users to see if you can give them another chance....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 26 July 2018
By a system of rewards can be editing points so for example an editor has reached 30 edits in the course of the week you can credit them with 30 Wikitokens so they can use it for upgrading ranks within Wikimedia and Wikipedia like from Rookie Editor from Editor In Chief without impacting Wikimedia or Wikipedia... For me it is a system of incentive for editors to keep editing in Wikimedia or Wikipedia and expanding our universe of Amateur Editors and also Professional Editors that makes Wikimedia and Wikipedia a good place to gain knowledge....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 24 July 2018
Internet is rapidly developing and technologies have serious effort. Many people are lack of professional knowledge and confused about developing internet, which may limits Wikipedia's development. Wikipedia community need information technology advocate team to help improve ability of security and development....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 24 July 2018
Build a healthy global pipeline of future Wikipedian by teaching and nurturing high potential young users across the world to be part of building out this important resource. Create a training curriculum and special learning center for future Wikipedians to build meaningful skills in small consumable lessons that are age appropriate. Consider making this into a classroom activity, perhaps scaled for various ages or grades. Ideally we should build a pipeline that extends to all corners of the world, not just to economically leading geographies. It could be as simple as just making some easier training for youth, or as sophisticated as a full blown global campaign to recruit and nurture the best student candidates of today into tomorrow's editorial powerhouse. Perhaps even consider setting levels like WP/EIT (editor in training), where we can signal to the mature editorial community that we are in gentle guidance mode with the intention of finding and growing a healthy pipeline of the next generation of editors....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 23 July 2018
This project should be targeted at getting Non-governmental Organizations (NGO) in Nigeria and elsewhere with verifiable track records of great performances get a Wikipedia page as this helps them to easily get funding and support to achieve more....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 23 July 2018
If a new article is created in Language A, then if the creator linked it to Language B, it then should automatically update linkage to all the other languages automatically, no need to do the manual work for each language....

Naposledy aktualizováno: 21 July 2018
Why not implment a "Collaboration" heading on main pages and each portal page for users willing to join forces on a subject? Or was that what the 'Village Pump' was supposed to be? It would save much time and effort....

The current Inspire Campaign is closed. You are welcome to continue providing feedback, revising ideas, and moving any ideas that need funding into grant applications. Be sure to review guidance to develop your idea further.

Outcomes

The Inspire Campaign on Measuring Community Health had several successful outcomes, including:

Strong participation in a more technical and research-oriented campaign (over 100 submitted ideas, and more than 240 participants who endorsed, commented on, or proposed ideas)

Contributors from over 35 different countries – including some emerging communities – had ideas to measure community health represented in this campaign.